Framingham man arrested on rape charges

Wednesday

Jun 28, 2017 at 2:18 PMJun 28, 2017 at 7:39 PM

Jonathan Phelps @JPhelps_MW

FRAMINGHAM — A Framingham man charged with raping two girls Saturday was ordered held on $100,000 bail.

Marcelo Moura, 53, was charged with two counts of unnatural rape of a child under 16 and two counts of aggravated unnatural rape of a child under 16. His address is redacted in court documents. . He pleaded not guilty during his arraignment Wednesday morning in Framingham District Court.

On Wednesday, following Moura's arrest, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers placed an immigration detainer on him.

Moura came to the U.S. lawfully in 2015.

"(He) has overstayed his lawful visit by nearly two years," wrote Shawn Neudauer, ICE spokesman for New England, in a statement. "An immigration detainer is a request that Moura be turned over to ICE if he’s released from local custody, rather than releasing him to the streets."

If Moura makes bail, Judge David Cunis ordered him to surrender his passport, to wear a GPS monitoring bracelet, to stay away from victims and witnesses and to have no contact with children under the age of 18, according to the Middlesex District Attorney's office.

Framingham Detective Michael Sheehan started investigating the case on June 24 when the mother of one of the alleged victims called police. Moura was arrested on Tuesday after Sheehan found probable cause, police said.

The two girls, whose ages were not available, were headed to a carnival in town the evening of the assault.

Before making it there, Moura allegedly showed the two girls a pornographic video on his cellphone in an apartment before raping them, a police report reads.

One of the girls told police Moura exposed himself and show videos to her before.

Moura is due back in court on July 24.

Jonathan Phelps can be reached at 508-626-4338 or jphelps@wickedlocal.com. Follow him on Twitter @JPhelps_MW.